Sidney Powell Has Raised $15 Million Off Her Election Lies

Sidney Powell has been spreading election lies as fast as Republicans have been spreading COVID this past year, and she has raised an astounding $15 million for her group "Defending The Republic" off those lies. But there's still one big question - Where is the money going? People that have come and gone from the group don't seem to have any answers, and this could land Powell in even more hot water. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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According to new reports out this week, Sidney Powell, the, uh, Cracken lawyer who swore she was gonna be able to overturn the presidential election. But, uh, so far has not yet done that thankfully, but her groups defending the Republic, which was basically two separate groups, raised $15 million this year. And as we've mentioned in the past, a lot of the people who were working with these organizations at the time, they've all left since then. Uh, none of them know where the money went. Now there's about 5 million of it that has been accounted for which includes a, a half million dollar payment to the Arizona auditors to keep that going on. So we're looking at 10 million gone. Hmm. Interesting. Right. So the big question is SI Powell. Where's the $10 million. Well, as a, of the end of July, which is the most recent, uh, uh, report that they have on the group's finances, they had about 5 million on hand. Okay. So there's five, we know five got spent, we know five was still there. So there's $5 million that Sidney Powell raised off of her election law eyes.

Where is it? I think that's the question that everybody would love to know. And of course we know now that investigators are also trying to figure that out. That's why the financial records of these groups have, you know, been turned over to investigators because something doesn't smell right about this 5 million completely, at least publicly unaccounted for now, of course, this could be absolutely just a good old case of no, we spent the money. We just didn't have to show you where we spent it. If you want the receipts for it, here it is. And if that's the case, one fine, no problem with anything. But when, and this is the issue they have when the people that were working for your groups come out and tell the press like, yeah, we, we don't know where it went. Seems kind of odd, doesn't it? Well, yeah, it seems odd.

You, but you were working there and, and you don't even know where the money went. So there is, of course this speculation that maybe it got pocketed, I don't know, maybe SI Powell's building up a nest egg for when she eventually, uh, loses that defamation lawsuit brought against her from dominion voting systems, you know, but unfortunately you can't use your political action committee money to, to pay off a lawsuit. So not exactly sure what's going on here, but I am confident enough that investigators are eventually going to get to the bottom of this. But the big takeaway, you know, whether she pocketed the money or whether it's totally

Legitimate expenses, again, it'll all come out in the wash, we'll see what happened, good chance. There was no wrongdoing at all. But the thing that sticks out most to me is that this 15 million that she raised was raised by lying to the public, you know, funneled into these, you know, packs that she has. One of 'em of course set up as a nonprofit. But how can that, why is that legal? Not how can it be? Because it is, how is that legal? Like how can you go out there, lie to people's faces, get them to give you money based on these false pretenses, but because it's a political group, it it's okay to essentially defraud these people, which is how I would define that. And it's how the law would define it. If it were any other business, why are financial rules for politics and political groups and all of that.

So less stringent than any other group. Like if you went into a restaurant, cuz the restaurant told you, come in, give us $10 and we're gonna make sure you get all the steak, you can eat, you give 'em you $10 and then they say, yeah, we don't have any steak. Okay, cool. Well, um, Hmm. That's interesting, right? No, you, you would be able to Sue them for false advertising for false claims, whatever it is. Uh, assuming it, you know, really was legitimate. They never had stake to begin with, but that's what we're dealing with TA here. How is this not false advertising? You are lying to people and they're giving you money based on those lies to do things, you know, you can't do with it, but Hey, that's politics, baby.